An independent online television company says two of its journalists were attacked with baseball bats and one of them shot with a rubber bullet in the western Kazakh city of Aqtau…Toleuova [Stan-TV deputy chief editor] said…that "the journalists were planning to interview local oil and gas corporation officials about the ongoing strike by oil workers in the region."...Paris-based media rights group Reporters Without Borders called the attack "shocking" and urged the authorities to investigate swiftly and impartially...Toleuova...[said] the attack is most likely connected with the journalists' professional activities. According to her, these two journalists have been covering the ongoing strike by oil workers in Manghystau Oblast since May.